qual number was added through an appropriation by the
Regents. But apparently small success attended these efforts, for few of
these trees have survived.

It was with the coming of the young Andrew D. White, as Professor of
History, with his youthful enthusiasm and memories of the "glorious elms
of Yale," that the first effective effort for the improvement of the
Campus began. He says, in his Autobiography:

Without permission from any one, I began planting trees within the
university enclosure; established, on my own account, several
avenues; and set out elms to overshadow them. Choosing my trees
with care, carefully protecting and watering them during the first
two years, and gradually adding to them a considerable number of
evergreens, I preached practically the doctrine of adorning the
Campus. Gradually some of my students joined me; one class after
another aided in securing trees and planting them, others became
interested, until, finally, the University authorities made me
"superintendent of the grounds," and appropriated to my work the
munificent sum of seventy-five dollars a year. So began the
splendid growth which now surrounds those buildings.

His example was doubtless infectious, for the Ann Arbor citizens
continued their tree-planting efforts around the outside of the Campus
in the spring of 1858, while a group of sixty trees presented to the
University were set out inside. The seniors of '58 left a memorial in
the shape of concentric rings of maples about a native oak in the center
of the Campus, one of the few survivals of the original forest growth,
which has since become known as the Tappan Oak, and is now marked by a
tablet on a boulder placed there in later years by '58. Many of these
maples still survive, though all traces of the circles are lost. The
juniors also set out another group further to the east, while Professor
Fasquelle planted a number of evergreens east of the north wing to
balance a similar group of Professor White's at the south. The maples
outside the walk on State Street were also the gift of Professor White
and were balanced by a similar row of elms on the inside, given by the
Faculty of the Literary Department. This general interest in Campus
improvement did not escape the Regents and successive appropriations,
though comparatively small, continued the work until Michigan now has,
in the words of the father of the movem